I really want to get into this at some point.

We have chatted about it but ive yet to commit to it any further.

Im trying to re-start my poker after not playing much for absolute ages so im going to have to sit down with the missus and see what times i can get away with playing

I get the impression DFS would take up way too much of time and im not sure i could get away with it

I've found with most things in life you tend to get out of it, what you put into it. It does take up time, more so now than before because they have introduced new leagues so you play every night. Most people just play EPL at the Wk end and the big Champions League nights.

I have heard people say that DFS Soccer Cash games are the toughest in all of DFS, a lot of games are Reg infested and not many recreationals. Most of the fish like to play the large field GPPs where you enter for a few bucks and try to cash in a top heavy payout position.

You can play them games a lot more casually by just looking at fixtures and picking a lineup in 5 mins. Cash games are a lot more tough and require more experience, research etc. After you get your first big win you will be hooked.


I've been getting a few msgs like this recently:



Hoping that this is Fedor Holz choosing his new career path outside poker. I am thinking $1mil bucks per hour for an introductory rate for him





Also guys I am busy with internet pokers and soccer DFS so not available for any dates right now so that you can milk me for my DFS strat.

Love that some people think that they are getting their arse kicked at Soccer DFS by a girl though

I want my advice for free though ...

I just want to be clear from the offset though ... i am indeed a bloke.

Re-start?

Ive start / stopped a million times over the years.

Never really gone 2 years with playing this little though, so im classing it as a re-start

Maybe 6 max is the answer mate

Have you seen how my captaincy picks have performed in FPL in this year?

Take my football advice at your own risk. I have some theories why Kane never scores when expected to, against these bottom of the league sides but of course it might all just be down to variance.


During the last week I have made withdrawals from Stars, Yahoo and DraftKings. Had to jump through all the security hoops bs of uploading passport scans and utility bills with name/address. Wouldnt mind but I have already done all of this before then they press you for it again when making withdrawals.

Crypto
I have now spent/invested the money in some crypto currencies. Wont say how much or what I bought in case I end up looking like a complete fool and loosing the money as I am defo a Rookie at this. Of course if it goes well and I make some $ on it I will be more transparent to show everyone how clever I am

To buy crypto via credit or debit card the sites seem to charge a 4% to 8% fee, **** that. You can add money to your trading account via bank transfer and not pay the fees so that seemed like the way forward. Then for some reason bank transfers in GBP seem to have been disabled at all the exchanges.

I had to do the bank transfer in Euros, that cost £9.95 to do. But when looking at the conversion rates the bank complete fuct me over with the exchange rate to Euros. Read on their documentation that they only offer the exchange at a rate below what the current market rate is for doing transfers. So I still ended up paying a small fee in reality. Whole thing was turning into a big headache so I was happy to just get it over and done with at this point.

The last few times I have had a mini-heater in DFS I seem to have blown a hole in the BR shortly after by playing higher stakes. I think seeing the winnings in the account goes to your head a bit and you feel you need to be moving up and playing bigger games. But a few failed attempts at them limits can burn through $ rather quickly. I decided to invest some of the cash in crypto and largely stick to the same limits I have been playing for now.

No DFS until Thurs and my Crypto purchases are now done so I can get back to playing that card game online for some $s. Lets goooo

Your team is doing way better than mine again

I take it you got everything sorted with the DFS withdrawals then.

Im truly a mental fish at poker.

Only played 6700 hands so far and it goes like this.

Started 12 tabling FR .... break even after 2k hands and OMG the tables are terrible.

Fek it ... switch to FR Zoom ... OMG tables are crap ... down over 3 buy ins in just over 2k hands ...

Thats it .. i retire from full ring for good.

Switch to 6 max - a new dawn has arrived !

6 table those tables ... OMG feels like 10 hands per hour ... someone pass me a coffee ... nearly 5 hours of play and not reached 2k hands yet ..

Screw this ... seems like a good idea but its soooooooo slow.

Switch to 6 max Zoom ... another new dawn has arrived !

39 minutes later ... up nearly a buy in ... something tells me this might get bumpy at some point.

Considering moving back to normal tables but playing 8 tables.

No idea what happens today...

Yeah got the withdrawals done.

Sounds like you are cycling through the different poker variants and looking to see which one will give you the instant positive reinforcement of a heater and then play that game until you get bored or loose then switch again. It also protects you from failure cos you never play enough hands at one format to find out if you are winning/losing and put it down to variance then try something else.

Also, kinda feel you have some insecurity about your poker volume and number of tables/hands played. Because you dont always have time to play and often have breaks out the game, when you come back you feel the need to be playing as many tables as possible to get hands in then get frustrated when 12 tabling FR doesnt work out for you. I dont even play 12 tables, I ban myself from going over a certain number until my winrate improves at x number of tables.

I dont think you need Poker income to get by so you are perfectly fine to do whatever you want when you play but I think a more disciplined approach would yield better results for you. Playing less tables is defo more boring, but in the long run that could be what allows you to move up stakes and ultimately you are gonna be more interested in the game when you are playing 100NL.

I sometimes stick on ChicagoJoey or Doug Polks YouTube videos or an audiobook on in the background. Find it makes sessions less boring and they go by quicker.

Thats my 2 cents on it anyway, gl.

100 BIs

Now I know I ain't the richest, but I still wanna ball
Put money over bitches, but we still underdogs

Did you miss me? I don't know where I'm goin'
But I'm goin', now is you comin' with me? Up, up and away..

250k hands is nothing .... part timer.

People like Eriksen making you too much money obviously.

Well I know 250k hands is like a couple hours work for you 6max zoom grinders but that took a lot of time at FR.


Went and checked my DK results for the month to see if there is any truth in these Christian Eriksen making me money rumors.








Solid start to the month. But lets not get carried away, DFS works similar to Poker where by variance dictates a lot of things and you can get big swings up and down depending on how variance treats you. Entering 1 or 2k per slate you can quickly end up back to BE in a month. Pretty sure I have losing months too but I dont like to look at results or post graphs during them times as I feel it isnt good for my mental game.

That is the end of European World Cup qualifying now, I actually started off taking a loss on them slates but always felt it was an investment to get better and would pay off later on when I get to know the players and teams better. No more international breaks now until March 2018. Which means there is an absolute **** ton of Soccer DFS coming up probably every day until January now. The good start to the month will mean nothing if I cant finish the month strong too, so I need to be on my A game.

Might put a few more $ into Crypto. Ive worked out how to get money on the Exchange now via bank transfer without the bank fcuking me over with fees for SEPA transfers.

Great Blog! What kind of competitions are you playing on soccer dfs? I would like to start with DFS too, i guess Premier League and Draftkings is a good starting point?

Hey, I play pretty much the full lobby for Soccer DFS so I am in every contest most nights. On big slates for Champions League etc there are some bigger buy-in games @ $400 and $1k. I play them from time to time but I am down money there so I have cut back and will probably just game select and enter them selectively in future.

Cash Games in Soccer DFS are notoriously tough and some people have said it is the toughest out of all sports which I can believe. Cash games include: head to heads, double ups, 50-50s, triple-ups, 3 players. It is still fun to play them games but be sensible and start off at the smallest games such as $1 buy ins.

For GPPs there is usually a Quarter Jukebox contest running every slate where you can enter for $0.25 and you can put in around 20 lineups if you want to. That gives you something cheap to enter and practice in and you can chuck in a few lineups to experiment.

Yeah Draft Kings is the place to play for soccer. There are other sites but the prize pools are crap and I doubt half of them will survive the test of time tbh. Premier League usually generates a lot of interest and prize pools are generally pretty good on Saturdays.

Gl gl

Thanks for your answer, dev

I'll try out the Quarter Jukebox contests you were talking about and some shots on higher buy-ins as this is an invest in my learning process. I'd love to see German Bundesliga on draftkings in the future as this is my favourite league...really really hope they offer it next season

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Hold up. 2 players were caught cheating/colluding and didnt get permanently banned, they are restricted to not playing at the same table. lol

"These are inexperienced players and it appears that they failed to understand working together to gain an advantage over other players is against the rules."

^If you believe that you will believe anything.

But hey $3.80 cant complain. Will look at it like it is double rakeback this month.

Ooh yeah, new year, next phase begin..

Time for an update, aint checked any results in ages. Not been on 2+2 much either so will need to have a scout around and see how everyone else has been doing lately.

Poker we are still running around 3.3 bb/100 @ 50NL and my winrate seems to go up to around 5bb/100 when I play less tables. I will maybe post results based on number of tables next time I have HEM open for a closer look. So I am still not sure if that is good enough to move up to 100NL or if I should stick to 50 for longer.

In November I was off to a good start in Soccer DFS, here is how that one finished up:




December I had a couple of wobbles and seemed to run bad for a week and there was a huge slate on for boxing day where I did absolutely terrible and lost a few grand. But turned out alright in the end:



Then my next hustle was going to be to get into the world of trading Crypto currency. I started out by listening to crypto podcasts while playing poker and I also got Chrome to read articles out loud to me so I could learn a thing or two. I started putting money into Bitcoin and Crypto start of November I think. Then as you can see from my DFS graphs I had a few $ pumping my way during the same period.

Ended up firing in a couple more $k here and there on Cryptos that looked like they were in good spots to shoot up. After you learn about some of them you kinda want to get some money in on it. Think my Crypto portfolio now has around 12 to 15 different coins in it.

Made some very nice profit on Bitcoin and some of my alt coins have given me 200% and 300% ROI. That means that my BR has never looked better than it is today so I have to be pleased with how 2017 went. Feel I have some good positive momentum to really move forward right now and build on things even more in 2018 and that is exactly what my goal will be.

Improve:

Poker
DFS Soccer
Crypto Investing

No point in limiting myself to one thing, I want them all.

On to the next one, 2018 lets gooooo

GL for 2018 brother. < 3

The whole crypto thing fascinates and terrifies me at the same time. Probably best I steer clear of it.

Thanks for the support bro, all the best for 2018!

Mate defo take an interest in it if you like making $. A lot of people got rich in 2017 from Crypto, some coins went up ridiculous amounts like 20,000%. 2018 should still be a good year for it.

I bought into an alt coin on December 23rd and invested $918. Im looking at my portfolio now and it has went up 300% since then and is now worth $3043. I have several coins that have done the same and I have only been getting into this the last couple of months.

Its obviously high risk, high reward so would encourage everyone to do their own research and invest what you can afford to loose. But looks a great opportunity to print some $ to me.

gl

Here is a screenshot:

Been so busy with DFS and Crypto lately I have hardly had a look at HEM because when I get any time I try to get a few hands in. But had a look at HEM tonight.

I was convinced before that my winrate was higher when playing less tables. Quite often I have a football match on one monitor that I am keeping an eye on for soccer DFS, so playing less tables seemed to be the solution.

Here is my # of tables report from HEM:



Looking at it now it feels like those numbers are just noise. Whilst the winrate for 6 tables is pretty good, 9 tables aint bad either. There is probably a sweet spot whereby playing 14-16 tables would maybe dip my winrate but it doesnt look like there is much difference for 9 tables and under. If I played a million hands at each number of tables the winrate would probably regress to something similar until I am playing enough tables that rushing impacts my decision making in a negative way.

Here is the graph for 9 tables and under:



It isnt bad but it isnt great either. Still unsure if I should be shot taking 100NL again or wait until my winrate gets better @ 50NL first. Last trip to 100NL I was up 30BI with good winrate. Then the doomswitch got flipped and I went on a 35BI downswing and ended up in the red and was probably tilting like fcuk.

I am making decent money from DFS so I am not solely dependent on Poker money to survive so I could shot take for a while. But not sure my winrate justifies moving up to tougher games tbh. But playing 50NL doesnt feel like the greatest ROI for my time

Graph looks good dude, what's WR for that sample?

If DFS is making you good money, would this be a good time to venture over to 6 max and mess around at the $25 or $50nl tables and see how it goes ?

You never know ... you might enjoy it

Yo,

That graph was from multi table report in HEM and was built by highlighting 9 tables down to 1 table. So it graphs any hands that were played whilst having 9 tables open or less. HEM doesnt show the exact winrate for that just the graph. But the way I see it for a 5bb winrate I would need to be up 125 BIs after 250k hands and the graph shows I was up a bit under 100 BIs.

It looks like I am up about 110 BI after roughly 300k hands, think that is around 3.6 bb/100



The next graph is made by highlighting playing 6 tables or less:



Again for a 5bb winrate I would want to be up 70 BIs after 140k hands and I exactly hit that target. So playing 6 tables or less my winrate did seem to be 5bb/100 but then it dipped after that, so I may have just been running hot over that sample. Or maybe my winrate does slightly increase playing only 6 tables.

This is the problem with Poker you can never really be sure about anything with results cos there is so much variance unless you have a huuuge sample. I will see how I feel about it and maybe consider hitting 100NL and just playing 6 or 7 tables and see how it goes..


I did mess about at 6max at one point, I always seemed to have a higher winrate on deep stack tables but they hardly ran at FR. So think I played 100NL 6max deep for a while.

I am pretty confident I would beat 6max 50NL. But it would take ages to build a sample size and I would have to get used to the 6max Regs and build hand samples on them. Feel like I should focus on getting to 100NL FR first. But might consider some 6max 50NL. The amount of tables available at FR does get frustrating.

In fact I think the reason I started to notice my winrate was higher at playing lower table numbers is because you sometimes need to sit and play 4 or 5 tables for 30 mins while you wait on getting seats.


Fcuk it while I am going over results I will post this one as well:




I had vowed that I wasent playing any of the higher buy in DFS games for a while. But I spotted this $300 entry in the lobby and it looked like it wasent going to fill before kick off so I entered with about 3 seconds before lock. Of course every one else had the same plan and about 4 people all did the same thing so it filled very last second. But pleased to take the 1st finally as I am down 6 or 7k in them higher buy in games.

My Crypto portfolio got absolutely REKT last few days. Red bloodshed everywhere due to Bitcoin dropping to $9k and crashing the Alt market with it. Recovered a bit today and a few of my coins have big news to be released later in the month so would expect a boost before the month is over.

Sooo guess what I did last night? Finally lost patience in waiting for FR seats and jumped into 6max 50NL games! Here is my field report.

I thought there might have been some FR Regs I knew who also played 6max, looking through the lobby I didnt see any FR Regs.

If you cant spot the fish..
yeah pretty sure I was the mark in my 6max games.

I was slightly handicapped by the fact my HUD and StarsHelper setup were a complete riot on the 6max tables as I had no template saved everything was just scattered all over the place which didnt help.

No Hud Stats
As I had zero hands/stats on the regs and didnt recognise anyone it felt like the same feeling you get when you move up stakes and you are under a bit more pressure to win and ball with the regs and feel almost insulted that you are the mark now and other people are out to get you. I found myself wanting to win more on the 6max tables and almost getting too emotionally involved and caring about winning pots too much and thinking about making moves way too often.

Leak
Ultimately I think that is a leak I have. I have also struggled every time I have moved up stakes and I think that is part of the reason why. Winning becomes more important so bad beats and missing draws etc tilt you more. Then you get your emotions involved and start tilting and deviating away from your A game.

In contrast to playing my normal tables I dgaf if I miss draws or if a Reg coolers me because I have already stacked all these guys plenty of times and got the personal battles out the way so I can play a lot more relaxed and not get my emotions involved. I'll maybe open a 6max table or 2 in future whilst I wait on FR seats and start colour coding the regs and see how it goes.